Extra - dingoes? ;-)
Um, would screenshots of the installation help anyone at all? They are normally used for the wiki, right? I'm downloading BLAG-69999.00005.iso at the moment and will probably install it tonight or tomorrow.

I was attempting to install Linux Mint for fun (and failing) when I saw the new alpha was up. I didn't get to finish downloaded, came into work, saw 10001 started downloaded, halfway saw 10002, stopped and downloaded again and burned it. I hope I can get this CD home and installed before another ones comes out. :-)

I then saw the announcement on Distrowatch, but noticed it was already old and pointed to an old iso.

- The package progress bar does jump- Dunno if it's this hardware/laptop but the first reboot did not start X. I had to shell in from another laptop and `apt-get -y update`, rebooted the box and X is back.

Ya, kind of annoying. I think the image needs to be shrunk. If anyone wants to whip up a new candidate feel free to email it to me or whatever (moe@blagblagblag.org) or I'll just shrink that one or do another.

john maclean wrote:

- Dunno if it's this hardware/laptop but the first reboot did not start X. I had to shell in from another laptop and `apt-get -y update`, rebooted the box and X is back.

One thing may be that rhgb is busted, so it makes X start & stop like 3 freaking times or something. I'm going to fix rhgb, but I'm also tempted (again) to just leave it out.

our dog Bonita is part Australian Cattle Dog, which, in turn, is part dingo. One day we'll visit the Land Down Under. Until then, I'll display apparent non-sequiturs in my cubicle. Did you notice the warning poster from the Minnesota Zoo?

Gah! Normally during an install you press shift+ print screen and your screenshots are saved in root's dir. I made loads of them, about thirty or so and they seem to have disappeared. This is most likely caused my >>me<< rebooting the laptop thinking that X was busted in some way. Must the case that the images were not saved to disk as "blag-firstboot" or what ever the program that sets up new users was not completed? Anyway I've got a handful here [1].

Ah, soooo nice to have firefox highlight my spellinz mistakes! Well done Jebba. Will see if I can get a full set of screenies like this [2] over the weekend or even write another wiki [3].

wow, this seems much more of an beta than alpha. I'm going to keep this running and keep testing it out.

comments:
-picture bounces during package installs
-Doesn't find other Linux installs to put in grub
-RHGB fails to load (i say get rid of it)
-First boot runs this time although takes a little while to go
-it's anoying it complains about my password not being secure, just because a dictionary word appears, doesn't make it insecure. Ironic it doesn't complain about root passwords like that.
-nice picture for login
-OMFG! does this thing load fast, are you sure this isn't IceWM with a BLAG skin? No wait, the entire system is blazing compared to 50K on same system. (Linux Mint couldn't even bring up the install screen for an hour)
-LOL desktop picture
-Not sure if I like my name in upper right corner (but perhaps that will give other cool feature, will play with) (figured out how to change that if i want) (got it to work, wow this is cool and useful) (switched it to the graphic, added in the windows selector to the right of it)
-Pidgin needs a BLAG icon (and to go in the tool bar shortcuts)
-Icon chooser no longer gives you pictures to look at
-I'd replace the gnome/fedora log in screens with old BLAG ones
-the desktop session recorder is too long
-blag screen saver in gnome screen saver not working (although gnome screen saver still not as cool as xscreensaver)

Failed to fetch http://www.blagblagblag.org/70000/i386/base/pkglist.errata Size mismatchReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneE: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

The only time I have personally been able to figure out what causes this is when I realized my ISP was doing transparent proxying/caching and they were serving up older files than were actually on the server. Any idea if your ISP proxies/caches web hits?

/* ahem */
I totally fubar'd this installation. I was setting up a USB key installation and ran

Code:

dd if=/mnt/key/images/diskboot.img of=/dev/sda

which destroyed the boot partition. Not used to the renaming of partitions, where /dev/sda was an [externa] disk. So the moral of the story is... be aware of the new partition names. Run `mount` and check that you are not about to wipe an essential partition, OK?

Also Ive seen a lot of irq weiredness from dmesg. I think that it's nash that's having trouble with my irq interputs. Will investigate later... I know for certian it's the yenta and usb "thingies" in this laptop....

I went off to a BBQ and when I came back 70K had frozen. Last thing is messages was syslogd was restarting and then a gconfd start. Bon Echo was able to recover it's pages though.

I also noticed Synaptic appears twice in the administration menu. Perhaps move one of those to the Applications Menu, or just move Pirut to the administration menu. Points to Pirut's download helper as it was able to resolve dependencies before installing an application.

QT apps are not running at all or look motif fugly.

So far my favorite apps are running no problem under 70K: seamonkey, geany.

I downloaded an RPM, clicked open from download manager, crashed firefox, but Firefox was able to restore my session, including this message (!)

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